Enthusiasm

convinced that they are, then secure them; but if we are convinced that they are not, at least, without great striving and resistance on our part, then lay them down and let them alone for that time, get over wanting them until life brings them into our current. We must never forget that substance is always changing, and so is position, and the unattainable of today may become the attainable tomorrow, just from the fact that the law of supply and demand are equal. We can never hope to possess anything until we feel and know that it is directly in our line of transference, and it is our own folly if we sit down and become unhappy over it, while we recognize its separation from our lives. As soon as our wills recognize that it is not our own, we put it beyond our reach for that time; we will never get it until time, and our own wills, bring it into our atmosphere. There is no use striving after anything, there is no use grieving for it or mourning over it; this is true no matter how much it may seem to contradict our early teachings; we simply cannot get anything by running after it and straining every nerve to secure it; we only secure by attracting and polarizing ourselves above the plane of competition, where we can become conscious creators. When we have discovered this, we have come into a knowledge of how to get our true position to universal substance, and our own desires can get what they want; through this we demonstrate our own desires on the physical plane, and manifest the true freedom. In order to be happy we must learn not to put a perverted value on life's differentiations. It is in being influenced by these things that we get unhappiness. We have absolutely nothing to do with the differentiations of people, place or conditions. We are only responsible for one thing in this world life, and that is ourselves; everyone else is responsible for themselves and do not need to worry about us. If we would only learn this, and refuse to put our hands on another's life, and not allow their domination in our lives, we would go a long way in this search for happiness. It is not our own lives that make us unhappy, it is our fear of what others will think of us. We will never become happy nor know true happiness until we learn that it really does not matter what anyone thinks of us. There is only one true criterion of our actions, and that is ourselves. The only one we are responsible for is ourselves; it is impossible for us to tell what anyone nee